Only collective action by regional players can stop the slide to totalitarianism, says Columbia’s School of International and Public affairs lecturer Christopher Sabatini

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He is the author of Comandante: Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela THE MADURO FILE Born Nicolás Maduro Moros, 23 November 1962, in Caracas, Venezuela.

Meanwhile international pressure mounted on Maduro as his country and government became increasingly isolated, after two top political opponents under house arrest were dragged from their homes in midnight raids.

Maduro has convened a national vote to elect a Constituent Assembly to redraft the country’s constitution.

In Venezuela, the people govern.” Observers warn that the country teeters on the edge.

Chavez was not forced into firing all foreign and many Venezuelan oil workers for which Venezuela's oil industry has still not recovered.

This sham constituent assembly does not provide food, medicine and security for the people of Venezuela, it consolidates the government's lock on power in the face of overwhelming public dissatisfaction.

The history of South America over last 100 years is democratically elected governments being overthrown by right wing millitary dicatorships(with support from CIA) and murder on a mass scale of cvillians by their paramilitary forces.

And all this within the guarded discipline of the role - as both an immensely skilled technical actor, inhabiting the character with deceptive, almost insouciant ease, and as a strangely detached, wayward presence.

Incidentally, Jules et Jim is a true story, later told by one of the two female character's lovers, the French one, Henri-Pierre Roché, in the novel which Truffaut adapted.

General Macarthur had planes on the runway at Guam loaded with nuclear weapons, primed to bomb and set fire to a 50mile wide strip on the North Korean border with China.

The only conclusion I can reach is that China should annexe North Korea and decapitate the Kim regime, destroy the nuclear arsenal and invest in rebuilding the infrastructure to avoid mass migration and famine.

It's North Korea constantly making threats towards the US and its allies, firing missiles towards Japan, sinking South Korean naval vessels, etc.

IPCC investigates circumstances leading up to death of young black man following violent clashes with police in Hackney over incident

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Unverified footage on social media appeared to show at least one police officer attempting to restrain Rashan Charles, 20, on the floor of a shop in east London before he died later in hospital on 22 July.

His death sparked violent clashes with police in Hackney on Friday as demonstrators hurled bottles and fireworks at officers.

In the IPCC statement, the commissioner overseeing the investigation, Cindy Butts, said: “Since the tragic death of Rashan Charles ….there has been much public speculation and anger.

NUJ members at Financial Times agree to possible strike if newspaper does not end its almost 13% pay gap

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The company, which is owned by Japanese group Nikkei, said its workforce is split 50/50 between men and women.

More than 40 of the BBC’s most high-profile women wrote to Tony Hall, the director general, calling on him to urgently correct the gender pay gap.

The NUJ statement, which was passed unanimously, said: “Journalists at the FT are increasingly concerned that the gender pay gap at the Financial Times is worsening and that senior managers are not taking this seriously.

Cryptocurrencies are still more investments than way to pay, but their mainstream acceptability continues to grow, proper regulation will follow

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The money, presumably moved by the hackers, was taken from three bitcoin wallets associated with WannaCry, according to tracking firm Elliptic.

Last week the Russian national Alexander Vinnik, who allegedly defrauded early adopters of millions of pounds’ worth of bitcoins, including funds obtained from the hack of failed bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, was arrested in Greece.

The Russian authorities have become increasingly concerned about the potential for digital currencies to be used for illicit means, but remain undecided about whether it is a currency or a financial asset.

Leading judge’s warning of ‘blood on our hands’ if a suicidal girl is forced out of care is latest example of his outspokenness

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In June, Munby also drew attention to the “inhumanity” of splitting up elderly couples when one or both are moved to a care home.

The NHS has pledged to create 150-180 extra beds, adding to the existing 1,459, to meet growing demand for in-hospital mental health services.

Earlier this year he drew attention to the plight of women in the family courts who are subjected to direct questioning by men who had previously abused them violently, and called on the government to ban the practice.

British Medical Association say government pledge to increase numbers by 5,000 within three years is ‘unachievable’

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Dr Richard Vautrey said the government must “urgently address the underlying issues, particularly the unsafe workload pressure, behind the recruitment and retention crisis”.

In their annual report, The Royal College of GPs has warned that people in the profession “could reach breaking point” as recruitment numbers fell since September 2016.

Dr Richard Vautrey, the British Medical Association’s GP committee chair, said: “Despite the GP workforce shrinking again last year, the government has continued to promise 5,000 extra GPs to patients.

A new study shows that a shoddy Conservative election campaign gifted votes to Labour, writes strategy advisor Deborah Mattinson The British Election Study, published this week, tells a positive story for Labour.

The latest set of data from the study team found that Brexit far outstripped any other single issue in the minds of voters prior to the election.

It confirms that Labour did a great job of winning remain voters, and appealing to those who favoured a softer Brexit – despite its own lack of clarity about the single market.

Protests at Nissan dealerships would deliver two messages to Nissan, that Americans care about American workers regardless of the state in which they live and that Americans can personally impact a corporation that abuses and attacks its workers.

Bernie Sanders described Socialist-ruled Venezuela as a more suitable exemplar of the American dream than the United States.

I personally know of people who moved from Alabama to MS for jobs in this area with a major manufacturer of earth moving equipment.

To change things we need to look beyond our TV screens, writes comedian and actor Lenny Henry When the BBC revealed statistics showing the gender pay gap of their top earners, it made international news.

Having met many black and minority individuals from our industry, I know they would all welcome the chance to compete on a level playing field.

An Ofcom spokesperson said: “We completely agree with Sir Lenny that diversity must increase across the industry.

Conserving things to shoot them is simply sadistic, there's little evidence trophy hunting benefits wildlife, there are perhaps a few reserves that exist only because of trophy hunting that offers habitat for some endangered species.

Hunting (or culling) herbiverous species is significantly less effective at controlling grazing animals than predators in terms of nutrient cycling, prey selection and species behavior so people hunting antelope is a distant second in effectiveness.

Most of these sicko 'hunters' don't shoot animals which have been bred on converted soy farms.

Ballance in for Malan Ballance was the third-fastest player for England to pass 1000 Test runs.

All round good performance from England with some encouraging debutants.

I'd be telling him to focus on that and forget red-ball cricket.

Certainly the pitch became increasingly benign, but take out the Stokes-Bairstow partnership from that game and England could have been left needing a huge 2nd innings score to stave off an innings defeat.

Editorial: A hope that embryos could be purged of a genetic disease has been fulfilled in part. However, we are some way off reimplanting modified embryos into their mothers – for all the right reasons

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Editorial: A hope that embryos could be purged of a genetic disease has been fulfilled in part.

The scientists used a powerful gene editing tool called Crispr-Cas9 to fix mutations in embryos made with the sperm of a man who inherited a heart condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM.

In the US, Congress has barred the Food and Drug Administration from even considering human trials with edited embryos, while in the UK it is illegal to implant genetically modified embryos in women.

This followed Daily Telegraph reports that the Nationals MP had been urging his Liberal colleague, the environment minister, Gabrielle Upton, to change the Barwon-Darling water-sharing plan retrospectively to favour large irrigators.

The paper reported the change would retrospectively give irrigators like National party political donor Peter Harris more water rights under the law.

A long-term funding plan and a care worker recruitment drive are desperately needed. Why isn’t the government acting?

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Collaboration between the health service and local government is essential to modernise care, but tensions between the two are growing The financial crisis engulfing health and social care risks driving the NHS and local government apart.

A long-term funding plan and a care worker recruitment drive are desperately needed.

If you’re looking for a social care job or need to recruit staff, visit Guardian Jobs.

Slapping an arbitrary target on councils contributes nothing to solving these issues; it simply exacerbates underlying tensions between health and local government.

Ethical living columnist and awards founder Lucy Siegle on the 11th Observer Ethical Awards In the 10 years since An Inconvenient Truth, the Observer Ethical Awards have highlighted that change is not only desirable but possible too.

For more information and terms and conditions, go to observer.co.uk/ethical-awards

Our Ethical Living columnist Lucy Siegle asked leading environmental NGOs to set the questions.

Barry Sheerman chairs Policy Connect, a London-based firm that has held meetings attended by businesses and ministers

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Barry Sheerman chairs Policy Connect, a London-based firm that has held meetings attended by businesses and ministers A veteran Labour MP has become the first serving politician to be officially registered as a lobbyist.

Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, Palma in Mallorca and Paris-Orly airport have been particularly affected.

Understaffing and tightened security checks brought in under European regulations after the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks are causing the delays, according to A4E which represents airlines including easyJet, British Airways and Ryanair.

He said the police had increased the number of employees working at airports, while Aena had provided more equipment at the facilities, with extra staff to inform and assist passengers before going through passport control.

Border staff must now check passenger details against databases – such as the Schengen information system and Interpol’s record of stolen and lost travel documents – as they arrive and leave the affected countries.

Just come back from Nice airport and there was an extra passport check after security (within Schengen flight) - lots of people queue jumping, including English who should know better.

Currently passport checks in the Schengen countries for flights from non Schengen EU members are lighter than they are for non EU states.

There’s a lot to cheer in the universities sexual assault report. But I’m wary of how accurately the survey reflects the reality for international students

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Australian universities respond to the long-awaited report from the Australian Human Rights Commission on campus sexual assault

To establish the extent of university sexual assault and harassment is a critical step, with the survey released this week revealing high numbers of students affected by sexual assault or sexual harassment in the past 12 months.

There’s also something more fundamental at stake.

It was commissioned by The Hunting Ground Australia Project in conjunction with the national student survey by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), which was released on Tuesday.

Women aged between 60 and 62 are an average of £32 a week worse off due to changes in the state pension age. We’d like to find out how this affects you

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Women aged between 60 and 62 are an average of £32 a week worse off due to changes in the state pension age.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) also highlighted a significant boost to the public finances from the government’s move to lift the pension age for women from 60 to 63 between 2010 and 2016.

The increased state pension age was lifting employment and therefore the earnings of affected women but that was only partially offsetting reduced incomes from state pensions and other benefits, the IFS said.

Scrapping NHS bursaries will free up £800m a year for more nursing roles, but you say introducing tuition fees could make recruitment more difficult

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I received a full NHS bursary, £450 a month, for three years.

I think the removal of the bursary will have a particularly negative impact on mental health and learning disability nursing, which tend to be more appealing to older students with some life experience rather than school leavers.

Nursing students are are now going to be expected to in effect “subsidise” the NHS by working for free whilst accruing debt that their potential wages mean that they will be unable to ever pay off.

If students are made to pay to work for the NHS they should insist on a supernumerary status with no voluntary overtime, bearing in mind it would afford them far less invaluable and essential hands on experience.

OK, so explain why a number of NHS trusts removed the option of full-time employment from many newly qualified nurses, OTs and psychologists?

All staff attitudes in the university and NHS administration and management concerned with these placements ultimately impact on patient care as much as everybody else's in a clinical team.

The Ashes series will go ahead as scheduled later this year after a peace deal was finally brokered between Cricket Australia and the players’ union

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Australia captain Steve Smith said on Tuesday he was confident of a deal being brokered, but confirmed players would not travel to Bangladesh for a two-Test tour starting this month until the dispute was resolved.

However, the relationship between unemployed players and administrators has strained on several fronts throughout the saga.

CA chief executive James Sutherland proposed taking the matter to binding arbitration if a deal was not struck by early this week.

But Smith said Warner has nothing to fear regarding potential retribution from Howard and Sutherland.

Renewed push for a parliamentary vote on same-sex marriage gains ground as Victorian Liberal MP Jason Wood says party is no longer bound by plebiscite

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Longtime marriage campaigner Warren Entsch called for a Liberal party room discussion, claiming he was ambushed by Tony Abbott during the 2015 marathon party room debate when the former prime minister insisted more conservative National MPs take part.

Cormann backed Turnbull’s comments on the right of Liberal MPs to cross the floor.

Malcolm Turnbull is giving public assurances the plebiscite remains government policy.

The Liberal senator Dean Smith has signalled he will bring forward a marriage equality bill when parliament resumes after the winter break in early August.

Promoting breastfeeding should not include demonising women who don't want to.

When working at Strathclyde University at the start of 21st century I knew a lecturer in nutrition in the science faculty whose first year students, women and men, refused to hear him lecture on breast feeding.

I was feeding my son a bottle of expressed breast milk once and was approached by total strangers who told me what a terrible parent I was, and what a disgrace to feed my baby that way.